3 thoughts on “From work van to wild van in 22 photos”

Sorry if this has been answered here, I just found your site from vandogtraveller.

How many hours a week were you working on this, roughly. I desperately want to do this but I can’t do it over 18 months, 6 tops.

I was also thinking about getting the basics in (insulation, flooring, kitchen, maybe bathroom) and then adding to it later after i had been on the road. Do you think this would be practical? -it’s just me and i don’t mind roughing it a bit.

Its hard to put a number of hours on it, we probs put in 10-20 hours a week for 12 months. When we had solid blocks of time to work on the van things progressed really quickly.

We custom made all the parts of our fit-out which added hours / days / weeks to the build. You could certainly do a much quicker build if you stripped out a caravan, but this wasn’t the look we wanted.

With regards to living in your van whilst still working on the build, but for us it dramatically slowed down the build. That being said, if we could do it again we would have moved into the van sooner and started saving our rent money. Check out our post How to live in a van whilst working full-time